Re: [emacs-w3m:11603] Re: interactive-p obsolete

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Cleaning up some CCs.

Lennart Borgman writes:
 > On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 13:38, Bastien <address@hidden> wrote:
 > > Guys,
 > >
 > > FWIW, I agree with Juanma here: compatibility functions should live
 > > where they are needed, i.e. in external packages.
 > 
 > For larger well maintained packages that is no big problem. However
 > for small packages/single elisp files it is worse. (We might have an
 > example here where the compatibility function is in error and needs to
 > be replaced.)

The package you think you want already exists, it's called APEL (A
Portable Emacs Library).  I believe Morioka-san et al still maintain
it.  It has a number of serious design restrictions (most important,
it makes decisions about which compatibility functions to provide at
compile-time, for efficiency, so you need a copy for pretty much every
Emacs you run).